Notable Military Figures

This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the military world.
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NameLifespanOther Names
Miltiadesc. 550-489 BC
Sun Tzuc. 544-c. 496 BC
Themistoclesc. 524-459 BC
Pericles495-429 BC
Leonidas?-480 BC
Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus?-4xx BC
Alcibiadesc. 450-404 BC
Alexander the Great356-323 BC
Pyrrhus of Epirusc. 319-272 BC
Hannibal Barca247-c. 182 BC
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus236-183 BC
Hamilcar Barca?-228 BC
Lucius Cornelius Sullac. 138-78 BC
Marcus Licinius Crassusc. 115-53 BC
Pompey the Great106-48 BC
Gaius Julius Caesar100-44 BC
Marcus Aemilius Lepidusc. 88-c. 12 BC
Marcus Antonius83-30 BC(Antony)
Spartacus?-71 BC
Sextus Pompeius67-35 BC(Pompey)
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippac. 63-12 BC
Vercingetorix?-46 BC
Arminius18 BC-21
Stilichoc. 359-408
Aetiusc. 390-454
Attila the Hun406-453
Belisarius500-565
Muhammad570-632
Khalid ibn al-Walidc. 592-642
Charles Martel?-741
Charlemagne742-814
Roland?-778
William I the Conquerorc. 1028-1087
Rodrigo "El Cid" Díaz de Vivarc. 1043-1099
Saladinc. 1137-1193
Genghis Khanc. 1162-1227
Aleksandr Nevskiy1220-1263
William Wallacec. 1270-1305
Timur1336-1405
Gjergj "Skanderbeg" Kastriotic. 1405-1468
Jeanne of Arc1412-1431
Francisco Pizarroc. 1471-1541
Hayreddin Barbarossac. 1478-1546
Hernán Cortés1485-1547
Süleyman I the Magnificent1494-1566
Oda Nobunaga1534-1582
Toyotomi Hideyoshi1537-1598
Francis Drake1540-1596
Maurice of Orange1567-1625
Piet Hein1577-1629
Miyamoto Musashic. 1584-1645
Gustav II Adolf1594-1632
Bohdan Khmelnytsky1595-1657
Maarten Tromp1598-1653
Oliver Cromwell1599-1658
Michiel de Ruyter1607-1676
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne1611-1675
John Churchill1650-1722
Prince Eugene of Savoy1663-1736
Maurice de Saxe1696-1750
Friedrich II the Great1712-1786
Aleksandr Suvorov1730-1800
George Washington1732-1799
Toussaint Louverture1743-1803
Kazimierz Pułaski1745-1779(Pulaski)
Mikhail Kutuzov1745-1813
Tadeusz Kościuszko1746-1817
John Paul Jones1747-1792
Lafayette1757-1834(du Motier)
André Masséna1758-1817
Horatio Nelson1758-1805
Josias Rowley1765-1842
Michel Ney1769-1815
Arthur Wellesley1769-1852
Napoleon Bonaparte1769-1821
José de San Martín1778-1850
Simón Bolívar1783-1830
Winfield Scott1786-1866
Matthew C. Perry1794-1858
David Farragut1801-1870
Robert E. Lee1807-1870
Giuseppe Garibaldi1807-1882
George Meade1815-1872
William Tecumseh Sherman1820-1891
Ulysses S. Grant1822-1885
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson1824-1863
Ambrose Burnside1824-1881
Geronimo1829-1909
George Dewey1837-1917
George Armstrong Custer1839-1876
Paul von Hindenburg1847-1934
Heihachirō Tōgō1848-1934
Alfred von Tirpitz1849-1930
Josias von Heeringen1850-1926
Ferdinand Foch1851-1929
Philippe Pétain1856-1951
Alfred Dreyfus1859-1935
John J. Pershing1860-1948
Eremia Grigorescu1863-1919
Erich Ludendorff1865-1937
Rüdiger von der Goltz1865-1946
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim1867-1951
William D. Leahy1875-1959
Pancho Villa1878-1923
Douglas MacArthur1880-1964
George C. Marshall1880-1959
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk1881-1938
Isoroku Yamamoto1884-1943
Chester W. Nimitz1885-1966
Tomoyuki Yamashita1885-1946
George S. Patton1885-1945
Raymond A. Spruance1886-1969
Bernard Montgomery1887-1976
Erich von Manstein1887-1973
T. E. Lawrence1888-1935
Heinz Guderian1888-1954
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890-1969
Charles de Gaulle1890-1970
Karl Dönitz1891-1980
Erwin Rommel1891-1944
Arthur Harris1892-1984
Omar Bradley1893-1981
Georgy Zhukov1896-1974
Konstantin Rokossovsky1896-1968
Ivan Konev1897-1973
Vasily Chuikov1900-1982
Orde Wingate1903-1944
Adolf Ehrnrooth1905-2004
Nguyên Giáp1911-2013
Lyudmila Pavlichenko1916-1974
Stansfield Turner1923-2018
Audie Murphy1925-1971
Matan Vilnai1944-
Pavao Miljavac1953-2022
Elazar Stern1956-